Symptoms of acute pancreatitis in children?

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For children with acute pancreatitis, if the disease is actually a child, it still needs to be taken seriously. Although the incidence rate is not high among children, the risk is very great. This requires active treatment. Here are the main symptoms of acute pancreatitis in children.

Symptoms of acute pancreatitis in children?

The early symptoms of acute pancreatitis in children are characterized by sudden onset of persistent epigastric pain, accompanied by fever, nausea, vomiting, increased serum and urine amylase activity, and severe peritonitis and shock.

Chronic infantile acute pancreatitis is characterized by recurrent acute infantile pancreatitis or pancreatic insufficiency, including abdominal pain, abdominal mass, jaundice, fatty diarrhea, diabetes, etc. There are also hand and foot convulsions, which are caused by the decrease of blood calcium.

It is due to the action of lipase in abdominal cavity, the adipose tissue on omentum and peritoneum is digested and decomposed into glycerin and fatty acid, the latter combines with calcium to form insoluble fatty acid calcium, so the serum calcium is decreased. If the serum calcium is less than 1.98mmol/l (8mg%), it indicates that the disease is serious and the prognosis is poor.

matters needing attention

In short, the above content is to introduce the symptoms and treatment of children with acute pancreatitis, in fact, if children unfortunately suffer from this disease, do not delay, need to go to the regular hospital for regular and effective treatment, so that in the regular treatment, away from the harm of this disease as soon as possible.